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TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.
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TIL According to Aristotle, a city of 100,000 is too numerous and “no longer a community”
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TIL that Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government sponsored jobs.
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TIL: The Great Chinese Famine was caused when terrified civil servants inflated figures to avoid punishment from the supreme leaders. Estimated deaths: 15 to 45 million.
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TIL: This guy (Jason Lewis) became the 1st person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled, & inline skated 5 continents, & kayaked, swam, rowed, & pedalled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete, the 46,505-mile journey.
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TIL when asked how they discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew, Many indigenous Amazonian people said they “received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits”.